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Yahoo
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom Spotted Vacationing Together on Jeff Bezos' Superyacht After Split
Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom were spotted together on Jeff Bezos's yacht less than two weeks after confirming their split News broke in June 2025 that the former couple, who had been together for nine years and got engaged in 2019, parted ways, PEOPLE confirmed at the time Perry is currently in the middle of her Lifetimes TourKaty Perry and Orlando Bloom were spotted vacationing together days after confirming their split. On July 6, the "Firework" singer, 40, and Pirates of the Caribbean actor, 48, were spotted on the superyacht of their friends Jeff Bezos, 61, and Lauren Sánchez, 55, off Italy's Amalfi Coast. The former couple and their daughter, Daisy Dove, 4 1/2, enjoyed a day on the water and strolling through a coastal town. Perry held hands with Daisy as they made their way along a marina, and Bloom lifted his daughter in the air while playing around on deck. Perry wore a black bikini and sunglasses with a matching shorts and button down cover-up set for the outing aboard Koru, while Bloom sported black swim trunks, a white t-shirt and black baseball cap. The outing marks the first time Perry has been spotted outside of her concert performances since the end of the engagement. Bloom attended Bezos and Sánchez's wedding in Venice at the end of June, but Perry was absent from the star-studded celebration. On Friday, June 27, the singer shared a series of photos and videos from her time in Australia, where she is currently performing a leg of her Lifetimes Tour. Sánchez, with whom Perry embarked on a highly publicized space flight in April, commented on the post, "We miss you Katy ❤️." Bloom, meanwhile, was snapped enjoying the festivities in Italy, including warmly greeting Kim and Khloé Kardashian, as well as their mom Kris Jenner, over lunch at the lavish Venice hotel Gritti Palace. This is not the first time Perry, Bloom, Bezos and Sánchez have all vacationed together. In 2023, shortly after the Amazon founder and news anchor's engagement party, the couples' and friend Usher were spotted strolling the streets of Dubrovnik, Croatia's old town together during a yacht vacation aboard Koru. Perry and Bloom called it quits after being together for nine years. TMZ was the first to report rumors regarding their split, and PEOPLE confirmed their breakup on June 26. In a statement obtained by PEOPLE on Thursday, July 3, reps for the pop star and the actor officially confirmed the couple's split and illustrated how they plan to move forward as a family. "Due to the abundance of recent interest and conversation surrounding Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry's relationship, representatives have confirmed that Orlando and Katy have been shifting their relationship over the past many months to focus on co-parenting," the statement read. "They will continue to be seen together as a family, as their shared priority is — and always will be — raising their daughter [Daisy Dove, 4½] with love, stability, and mutual respect." The actor and the Grammy-nominated artist began dating in 2016. They met at a Golden Globes after-party and made their relationship Instagram official that May. They broke up in 2017 but got together the following year. A source told PEOPLE in February 2018 that they were spending time together but "not necessarily putting a label on it." "They are not girlfriend and boyfriend. They do seem very happy together though. Orlando always had the nicest things to say about Katy. He loves spending time with her," the source said at the time. In 2019, Bloom proposed to Perry. The former couple had planned to wed in Japan in the summer of 2020, but postponed their wedding due to the coronavirus pandemic. In August 2020, Perry and Bloom welcomed daughter Daisy Dove. Since the news of their split, Bloom has been in Venice, celebrating the wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sànchez. A source told PEOPLE in June that Perry and Bloom were "pretty much done" and "don't really see them being able to turn things around here." "It's been breaking down the last couple of months and isn't looking good," the source added. Perry has been in the middle of her massive Lifetimes Tour. She is wrapping up the Australia leg this June before heading to North America for July and August. In September, the "Roar" singer will head to South America before the European leg kicks off in October and November. Perry concludes her tour in Abu Dhabi this December. Read the original article on People
Hindustan Times
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Tom Brady, Sofia Vergara's dinner photo sets social media abuzz: ‘Not on my bingo chart'
National Football League icon Tom Brady is no stranger to making headlines, be it winning the Super Bowl, starting businesses, or his high-profile relationships. However, this time his photo at a Venetian dinner table rather than on the gridiron left fans in a frenzy. Brady, 47, was spotted sharing what appeared to be an intimate and warm dinner moment with actor Sofia Vergara, 52, during Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez's lavish celebration in Italy. The photo, which quickly went viral, has fans speculating whether a new celebrity romance is brewing, stated Athlon Sports. A photo of Tom Brady and Sofia Vergara dining together has gone viral. (AFP and Instagram/ Sofia Vergara) Are Tom Brady and Sofia Vergara dating? According to the report, the buzz began after Tom Brady and Sofia Vergara were spotted sharing a lighthearted exchange at the Gritti Palace during the multi-day bash. Known for her quick wit and charm, the Modern Family star was seen laughing and chatting comfortably with the seven-time Super Bowl champion. In the meantime, while mingling and hobnobbing with other A-listers, including Orlando Bloom and model Brooks Nader, Tom Brady was also spotted with Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney earlier in Venice. Also read: Tom Brady, Dakota Johnson and Kate Hudson turn heads on luxurious Ibiza yacht getaway Social media reacts to potential pairing Soon after the picture surfaced on social media, fans could not resist joking about the potential pairing. A user on X (formerly Twitter) said, 'Dude first he was messing with Sydney Sweeney and now with Sofia Vergara.' They noted Brady has been spotted with three different women since his divorce. A second user noted, 'I'm unfamiliar with this side of Brady's game,' while another commented that Brady was 'GOAT on and off the field.' An account expressed surprise at the pairing and said, 'That was not on my bingo chart for 2025.' Sources downplay speculation around Tom Brady, Sofia Vergara Another report quoted sources saying there is no romantic involvement between Sofia and Brady. An insider told People that the two were just enjoying the party and each other's company. 'There's no relationship to confirm,' the source sasid. As per the Athlon sports report, since finalising his divorce from Gisele Bundchen, Brady has remained in the public eye, attending elite events. Vergara, too, is navigating her life since she split from actor Joe Manganiello. FAQs Q: Are Tom Brady and Sofia Vergara dating? A: There's no official confirmation. Sources say the two were simply enjoying each other's company during Jeff Bezos' party in Venice. Q: Where did Tom Brady and Sofia Vergara meet? A: They were seen chatting and laughing during a celebration hosted by Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez at the Gritti Palace in Venice. Q: What made the photo of Tom Brady and Sofia Vergara go viral? A: The image captured a warm, candid moment between two beloved celebrities, sparking speculation about potential romance and setting social media abuzz. Q: Is Sofia Vergara dating anyone after her divorce? A: Sofia Vergara has not publicly confirmed any new relationships since her divorce from Joe Manganiello.
Atlantic
30-06-2025
- Business
- Atlantic
Of Course Jeff Bezos Got Married in Venice
The Gritti Palace was built in Venice in 1475, with no expense spared. Its chandeliers are made of handblown Murano glass, its bathrooms of polychrome Italian marble. Its terrace looks out over the Grand Canal onto a domed basilica. For years, it was home to Venetian nobility, but now it's a luxury hotel, where suites can cost €14,000 a night. Last weekend, it was booked solid by a new kind of nobility, in Venice for a new kind of no-expense-spared spectacle: the wedding of Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and fourth-richest man in the world, and Lauren Sánchez, a former TV presenter. The Trumps have Rome; the Bezos-Sánchez family, apparently, has Venice. In at least one way, the city is an apt wedding venue for one of this era's most successful merchants. It's an archipelago of sandy islands in shoal waters that, largely thanks to Venice's placement at the head of the Adriatic, became one of the Mediterranean's dominant ports and one of civilization's first centers of global commerce, through which the world's spices, silk, fur, and jewels flowed for centuries. It was, in other words, a city that became important not because of what it made but because of what you could buy there, the beneficiary of right-place-right-time magic that someone like Bezos might today call synergy. For many years, it was one of Europe's richest cities, defined by its ostentation and swagger, the spoils of all that wealth: mansions filled with art, basilicas filled with stolen artifacts, marble and gold everywhere you looked, impossible magnificence rising from unstable ground. Today, Venice's primary industry is tourism, and its primary export is its own mythology. The Renaissance-era tradesmen are long gone; in their place are people there to gawk at what the Renaissance-era tradesmen bought. Modern Venice is 'an amusement park,' as the historian Dennis Romano, who recently wrote a book on the city, told me. It's a living museum of obscene wealth. It's whatever the opposite of quiet luxury is. It's big and literal, unapologetic and unrestrained, a type of old-world vulgarity newly back in style, at least among people so powerful that they don't need to care about taste. (Should Ivanka Trump, a wedding guest, have happened to look up while killing an afternoon at the Gallerie dell'Accademia this past weekend, she might have recognized something: The gold-leaf ceiling in the living room at Mar-a-Lago was explicitly modeled after one at the art museum.) The wedding festivities began with a foam party on a $500 million superyacht, continued with a welcome event at a church whose walls are lined with Tintorettos, and culminated with a Friday-night ceremony on the same secluded island where the G7 once met. The Gritti and other high-end hotels were filled with guests including Leonardo DiCaprio, Oprah Winfrey, and several Kardashian/Jenner sisters. Estimates have placed the cost of the whole event at somewhere possibly far north of $20 million. If the vibe of the wedding was, at least to some observers, tacky, that's beside the point. Venice is rich—world-historically rich, one of the richest places money can buy. It's a place where even the bathrooms are exquisite, where every square inch is drenched in beauty, where a wedding guest or a former TV news anchor can feel like royalty. Of course Bezos and Sánchez wanted to marry there. Still, there's something funny about it all: a couple whose wealth is derived from modern convenience tying the knot in a place so thoroughly, proudly antiquated; Bezos, a man responsible for unleashing thousands of delivery vehicles onto American streets, getting married in a city with no cars. Sánchez recently climbed into a rocket ship and flew to the edge of space, but for one of the most important days of her life, she chose a city where the most efficient way to get around is to hire a guy in stripes to locomote you using a method that has existed since before Jesus was born. Venice is now a sinking place, a place being destroyed by modernity and consumption—pollution, climate change, mega-tourism. Moto ondoso —'wave motion'—from large boats is eroding the centuries-old foundations of the city's buildings. Venice has about 20 million tourists a year, and fewer than 50,000 annual residents. Many of those in town protested the Bezos-Sánchez wedding: They papered over the city's ancient stone walls with flyers suggesting that Bezos leave, sent effigies of him floating down the canals, and unfurled a massive banner that read, If you can rent Venice for your wedding you can pay more tax. Romano predicts (as do I) that the wedding and its attendant publicity will likely just drive more tourists to the city. Everyone, after all, loves an amusement park—especially people with plenty of money to burn.
Time of India
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Glam-Gone-Wrong At Bezos' Starry Soirée: Vittoria's Gown Rips At Bezos' Big Night
Vittoria Ceretti made a bold fashion statement in Venice, stepping out of the Gritti Palace in the same vintage Dolce & Gabbana gown once worn by Gisele Bündchen. The model stunned at Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's lingerie-themed after-party, pairing the throwback dress with a sleek clutch and straight brunette hair. But the glamorous look didn't survive the night, Ceretti suffered a wardrobe malfunction as her gown ripped mid-celebration. She later posted a playful 'how it started vs. how it's going' Instagram update showing the tear growing into a full split. Meanwhile, Leonardo DiCaprio kept things low-key in silk pajamas, a blazer, and his signature cap.
USA Today
29-06-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez put a bow on wedding weekend with last bash
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's star-studded wedding weekend is a wrap. The casually clad newlyweds were spotted on a boat leaving the Aman hotel in Venice on Sunday, June 29, after a final night of partying capped a three-day wedding extravaganza. She donned a wide-rimmed black hat and dark sunglasses with a sleeveless white dress, while he wore a black tee and shades, his arm around his wife's waist. The couple smiled and waved to photographers as they exited. Bezos, 61, and Sánchez, 55, exchanged rings on Friday, June 27, on the small island of San Giorgio, across the water from Saint Mark's Square, accompanied by singing from Matteo Bocelli, son of Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli. Bill Gates, Leonardo DiCaprio, Orlando Bloom, Tom Brady, Jordan's Queen Rania, Oprah Winfrey, Kris, Kendall and Kylie Jenner and Kim and Khloe Kardashian, as well as Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, were among the A-listers present. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez wed: The couple tie the knot in controversial wedding ceremony A bash held the day after the wedding ceremony− which wrapped up a weekend of celebrations for 200 to 250 guests, estimated to have cost $50 million in all − took place on Saturday, June 28, in the Arsenale, a former medieval shipyard in an eastern district of the lagoon city. Celebrity guests were seen leaving the Gritti Palace hotel in central Venice wearing their interpretation of pajamas and loungewear before boarding small boats to reach the party. Bezos and Sánchez chose a dressier look. He sported a black shirt and suit, while she wore a soft-pink off-the-shoulder dress. They kissed on the boat while greeting those around them. About 1,000 people marched on June 28 in protest of the lavish festivities. Activists unfurled banners that read, "No space for Bezos" and "If you can rent Venice for your wedding, you can pay more tax." At the ceremony, the bride wore a high-necked silhouette dress and a tulle and lace veil by Dolce & Gabbana, which she told Vogue was based on Sophia Loren's dress to marry Cary Grant in the 1958 film, "Houseboat." Sánchez was also wearing a pair of diamond earrings by Dolce & Gabbana, which, according to Vogue, were lent to her in keeping with the tradition that it brings good luck for a bride to wear something borrowed. Bezos, who is No. 4 on Forbes' global billionaires list, donned a black tuxedo and bow tie over a white shirt. While some residents and activists raged against Bezos as a symbol of inequality and arrogance, Venetian businesses and political leaders welcomed the luxury nuptials, hailing them as major boost for the local economy. "Those who protest are in contradiction with the history of Venice, which is a history of relations, contacts and business," Mayor Luigi Brugnaro told Reuters. Lauren Sánchez made this subtle change: Here's what she did after marrying Jeff Bezos "Bezos embodies the Venetian mentality. He is more Venetian than the protesters," the mayor said. He added that he hoped Bezos, who donated 3 million euros ($3.51 million) to local institutions, would return to the city to do business. Brugnaro said Bezos had attached no conditions to holding his wedding celebrations in Venice, and City Hall had only learned about his donations after they had already been made. Bezos, Amazon's executive chair, got engaged to Sánchez in 2023, four years after the end of his 25-year marriage to novelist and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott. Contributing: Brendan Morrow and Kim Willis, USA TODAY
